PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16866, 1 February 1929, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr. anil Mrs. N. Haiulricks and family returned to Gisborne lasi- evening after visiting Hamilton and Auckland. All. W. ITa.ywar,l, a well-known bust ness m;in, lias been selected by llm A'itiZens' Association to contest the Ciirid clnireli mayoralty. --Ik A. Mr. G. F. Bilks, an Australian bus; ness man and Governor ol Rotary lor Hun country, is at present louring the South Island.

Captain T. B. Bax, of Dio Nelson Crescent, Napier, has just received from England his long service modal for 23 years’ service in the < V,lonial Auxiliary Forces of New Zealand.

Miss Nellie Scanlon, the Wellington journalist, Aon a £2OO prize offered by the London Daily Express for the best post card film criticism. —Ansi. Press A asocial ion.—United Service.

Mr. L. M. Rnnmly. vice-president and general manager of the export division of General Motors Corporal ion, and one of Hie most travelled men in its service, arrived at Auckland by the Niagara on Monday on a 10-day visit to New Zealand. He has made many trips to the Dominion.

AH. A. It. Donne, 8.A., headmaster of the. Oxford district: high school, has been appointed hcadinast‘*r of the Danmivirko South School, in succession to Mr. 17. E. Pole, who loaves this week for Morrinsville, to lake up the herulmastership of Dm district high school tlu-re.

Sir Thomas Parkinson, M.lh, a wellknown London physiciiin. who has been travelling the world for the last IS months, arrived back in -Sydney last week after spending four months in New Zealand, of which cPuntry lie is a native, He will leave Sydney for Kenya Colony on February 3, and, on his return to London may enter political life.

Clip of the bc.At known men in Au~ iralian shipping circles is ( aptain J. T. Wilson, senior pilot in ihe Inrre; Slinii service, who has arrived at Auckland to spend a holiday in New Zealand Captain Wilson, who resides in Sydney when lie is not on duly north of (Queens land, is one of Id pilots who are mem hers of a Torres Straits Pilots Associa Con, which lias been in existence lor 4t venes. I! keeps its own boa- at I hnrs day Island, and its members are tespon sib’lo for the safe passage of vessels nvm 2(100 miles of ocean.